Okay, first few parts of the comic done, will update over a long span of time probably, super super busy with uni and this takes forever lol. Happy with it so far tho :), links will be posted as updates come!
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Okay, first few parts of the comic done, will update over a long span of time probably, super super busy with uni and this takes forever lol. Happy with it so far tho :), links will be posted as updates come!
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Oh, to be a reindeer frolicking in the snow
Character: Noelle
Game: Deltarune
Friend inside me is real and on suicide watch
If there’s one very important throughline of Lore in this Chapter is blurring the seemingly clear-cut binary line separating Lightners and Darkners.
Well, on some level that started already in Chapter 4, with the Hammer of Justice introducing the idea of Lightners being reborn in Dark Works as Darkners under very specific circumstances.
But the Flowers really put that point front and center. They are living things that receive some sort of Wish-Fulfillment in the Dark World, much like how our Lightner characters receive cool outfits and powers… but the main Wish being fulfilled for them is having a higher form of consciousness and a more anthropomorphic form, like how Darkners come to life in the Dark World. Flowery’s portrait is Black-and-White, much like the Lightner characters, because he is a kind of Lightner as far as the metaphysical mechanics of Light and Dark function… except he also has colorful Darkner-like Golden eyes.
And so much of the conflict of this Chapter is based on their unique liminality. They’re Lightner enough that being reduced back to their Light World ‘inanimate’ form feels much more like a death to them then it feels to a regular Darkner (who can find contentment as inanimate objects, as they are ‘alive’ from the Dreams the Lightners associate with them)… but also Lightner enough that they can’t actually survive for long in the Dark World, their physical bodies still have their regular physical needs, but unlike Susie, they also can’t exactly pull out of the Dark World, grab a snack for nourishment and then pull back in.
And then the Secret Boss is another kind of Liminal being, a more traditional Darkner (in the sense of a truly inanimate object come to life) that’s also being brought to life due to being possessed by a Lightner ghost. Another sort of unique being who is not quite as Ontologically Doomed as the Flowers, but struggles with figuring out what her identity is in her own way. She feels more at home with other Liminal Beings like the Flowers, despite being technically a different kind of being.
All of this feels like build up to exploring the nature of Ralsei, the so-called ‘impossibility’, who already has some of their own ‘Liminal’ elements - they look much more ‘like a Monster’ than any other non-Gerson Darkner, they can appear and survive in every Dark World, and from a meta-narrative perspective, their role as a Darkner Playable Party Member seems to clash with the game’s meta-commentary making Darkners to be like a whole species defined as Video Game NPCs on some level.
They don’t quite seem to match any of the ‘Rules’ of the Liminal Beings we know of so far. Resurrected Lightners like Gerson are specifically mentioned to only appear in very specific Dark Worlds, so this is like the opposite of Ralsei’s situation, and even with their white fur, their portrait seems considerably less monochromatic to me than Flowery’s. But I think this is still a thematic build-up being done to explore different kinds of liminality between Light and Dark and how they affect the relevant characters, before we get into the particular kind of liminality that Ralsei represents.
It’s also likely to be relevant to the Roaring Knight. We still don’t quite know what’s up with them, but it is a pretty decent guess considering their behavior, that they are also their own kind of Liminal Being - they are Lightner enough to open Dark Fountains and operate in the Light World sometimes, but clearly prefer to only ‘show their face’ in the Dark Worlds. So this could also be thematic build-up to establishing what the hell is up with the Knight as well...
deltarune :)
expect fanart of the flowers at some points
find me on artfight! kind of super busy so idk how much ill fight back but i wanna meet new people and so heres my profile moldy_spoons
To all my writer friends who are on the struggle bus/suffering from writer's block/just dealing with life stuff right now!
I've been so busy with a hell of my own making (being depressed while doing an undergraduates) so no comic for a while, i plan to try and start back up in august because i do want to finish it.
IN THE MEANTIME, i have been doing nothing but thinking about how excited i am to play chapter five soon.
actively waiting for my finals to be done and through to finish the comic.
on better news, i got the tenna figure and 3D toriel on preorder. :))))))
On more stressful news, what is the fastest way to learn as much haskell as i can and quickly.
Was discussing on twitter how tenna playing make-believe with fake mike would effect spamtenna stocks. Came to the conclusion that it wouldn't really work at all, and if Tenna was to accept Spamton as he is now, he would have to let go of the fake mike roleplay.
After all, who's to say he doesn't see puppet spamton as another actor playing the part of someone who left him?
Bonus discussion:
Saddest thing ever is reading an academic paper about a threatened or declining species where you can tell the author is really trying to come up with ways the animal could hypothetically be useful to humans in a desperate attempt to get someone to care. Nobody gives a shit about the animals that “don’t affect” us and it seriously breaks my heart
“No I can’t come out tonight I’m sobbing about this entomologist’s heartfelt plea for someone to care about an endangered moth”
This is how I learn there's a moth whose tiny caterpillars live exclusively off the old shells of dead tortoises.
[Image description: text from a section titled On Being Endangered: An Afterthought that says:
Realizing that a species is imperiled has broad connotations, given that it tells us something about the plight of nature itself. It reminds us of the need to implement conservation measures and to protect the region of which the species is a part. But aside form the broader picture, species have intrinsic worth and are deserving of preservation. Surely an oddity such as C. vicinella cannot simply be allowed to vanish.
We should speak up on behalf of this little moth, not only because by so doing we would bolster conservation efforts now underway in Florida, [highlighting begins] but because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing. [end highlighting]
But is quaintness all that can be said on behalf of this moth? Does this insect not have hidden value beyond its overt appeal? Does not its silk and glue add, potentially, to its worth? Could these products not be unique in ways that could ultimately prove applicable?
End image description]
because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing
I was so inspired by this I made it into a piece of art for a final in one of my courses for storytelling in conservation
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late spamtenna valentines drawing.
later note: im also a huge fan of the tenna rgb blush i hope you can see it it makes me so happy
also bonus vvv
And also
Ole McMuffet had a corporate restaurant.
I've had this oddly specific image of Muffet working at McDonalds in my head for nearly 10 years, but no reason to really draw about it. The plot to get there is Kris Deltarune committing manslaughter at the McDonalds, obviously. Any resemblance to real Health Inspectors is coincidental.
I broke my original post order plans to get this on time for Valentines Season cuz it's always Valentines Day somewhere. Enjoy more out of order jokes.
Someone out there's playing Health Inspector Simulator (badly).
(Do you guys also remember when McDonalds had Mario Party 3? The controllers were almost always busted, but it was pretty dope.)
Does Ralsei know what McDonalds is.
I was seized by a divine vision
Still can't decide on how I wanna draw him aaaaaahhhhhh
pls send help